Improved means for manufacturing baskets



or splints of willow been shaped in the act ot' inter-lacing the l thebasket. fThese may behollow UNITED A'STATES PATENT@ OFFICE.4

ERNST BREDT, 0F NEV YORK, N. Y.

!MPROVED MEANS 'ORfMANUF'ACTURING BASKETS. 'u

Specification forming To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNsfL" BREDT, ot the city and State ot New York,have t invented, made, and applied to use acertain new and usefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Bas kets; and I do hereby declare thefollowin to be a ful, clear, and exact description of the saidinvention, reference being` had to the annexed drawings, making part ot'this specilication, wherein-fy Figure l is a side view 'of a basket madein my improved manner, and Figg, is a section o'f the basket and thedies employed in pressing thesa-me.

Baskets have heretofore been made by strips and other materialsinterlaced together in the desired form, and in some instances a shapehas been employed over' which the said strips are bent as they areinter'laeed.K These baskets havein all instances` A strips of which theyare composed.

The nature of my said invention consists in an improvedbasketmannfactured by pressure between heated dies, of a tlat piece ofmaterial Vsuitably prepared with sizing or stiening,

whereby theV basket is shaped very quickly, and-by the action ot' theheaton the sizing or ,stiiien-ing that shape is rendered permanent.These baskets are much cheaper than those interlaced in the usualmanner, and they are a new manufacture.

` In the drawings, 'of the sha-pe of the b is a die corresponding withthe interior ot' dies are to be heated in any a represents a hollow dieconvenient manner, such as by heated bolts'inserted into cavities in thcdies; or said dies and heated by steam, gas; oir

exterior ot'V the basket, and

part of Letters Patent No. 48,255, dated JuneQO, i865.

suitable press that will separate the dies or the required power.

The, sheet of material out of which the bas,`

softened by moisture and stift'ening, audit is inket is to bemade isprepared with sizing or trodnced between -the pressed up into the shaperequired for a basket and dried by the action of the heated dies,`carebeing taken to prevent the formation of wrin kies in the material.4 Thiscan be done by holding or pulling the edge ot the material oulside-thedies. Thebasket, as formed and-shaped by the dies, is afterward to befinished by cutting ott the surplus material and by the use of any.suitable or ornamental edge around the basket, as at c, Fig. 1, and ahandle or handles are to'be attached, as required. The size and shapeotthese` baskets may be varied, and they may be made of two parts, oneforming the lid and the other the bottom; and I have employed the termbasket as including'any portable receptacle adapted to the holding ofloose articles; and it will be seen that my baskets may be made out ot'wovenor flat e purpose for VVha't I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

A basketformed, by pressure between heated dies, of a sheet of materialsuitably prepared with sizing, stitl'ening, or moisture, substantiall yas specilied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 17th day ofApril, 1865.' ERNST BREDT. Witnesses:'

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THos. GEO. HAROLD.

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